Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#0Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 5:56pm
Is it bad if I feel cheap that someone just equated our relationship to the current production of "Sweet Charity"? Enjoyable but wouldn't want to see it more than once?
Anyone ever equate or have someone else equate their life or relationship to a musical?
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#1re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 6:01pmUm, My friends and I compare ourselves to Rent, nt just the characters, but the "Everyone loved us at the beginning, then we louder and then they hated us, but dang if we aren't still going strong!"
1. Ted Allen: Everyone has an interesting life if you ask the right questions.
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
2. Great buckets of Spoffnor, they're going to sing!
3. "I love shrubs that are historical." -Johnny and The Sprites
4. "We're not singing it to you, we're singing it for us." -Rosario Dawson, about La Vie Boheme
5. "The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things - which you had thought special and particular to you. And now, here it is, set down by someone else, a person you have never met, someone even who is long dead. And it is as if a hand has come out, and taken yours." -The History Boys
6. "Pass the parcel. That's sometimes all you can do. Take it, feel it and pass it on. Not for me, not for you, but for someone, somewhere, one day. Pass it on, boys. That's the game I want you to learn. Pass it on." -The History Boys
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#2re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 6:12pmHaha... AMEN!
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#3re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 6:16pmI totally relate to Bobby in company -though I am a little, well, much younger. Someone also compared our past relationship to "Sweet Charity" how funny!
"You look like a Christmas tree with a drinking problem!" - MEMPHIS
CurtainUp
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/9/04
#4re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 6:21pmMy musical theatre loving frined always says "My life IS a musical!" so for her Chanukah present I burned her a CD of showtunes that she always says relate to her - I entitled it: Andrea' Life - The Musical! It was fun.
Rosencrantz: "Be happy - if you're not even HAPPY what's so good about surviving? We'll be all right. I suppose we just go on."
- from Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
#5re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 6:22pmAs long as no one makes comparisons to "The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?" you'll be fine.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#6re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 6:24pm
Calvin, haha! Thank you for bringing a smile to my face!
Cheno, doesn't that comparison just *burn* you up inside?
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#7re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 6:55pmNope. but I HAVE often stated that the world would be better of if people occasionally broke out into song and dance.
iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#8re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 6:56pm
Darlin, you haven't been hanging out with me, then.
I *DO* break out into song and dance all the time!
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
#9re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 7:03pmI compare my life to YOU'RE A GOOD MAN, CHARLIE BROWN featuring me as good ol' Chuck.
Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!
LowLight
Swing Joined: 8/15/05
#10re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 7:09pmLMAO @ Calvin! Good one. I like to think I'm not judgmental but yeah, that's where I draw the line.
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sing4mysupper
Swing Joined: 8/16/05
#11re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 7:19pmMy life is a musical, thankfully I think it's still the overture, it would suck if I already made it to curtain call.
Mr Roxy
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/17/03
#12re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 7:22pmThe musical would be a flop & a bomb
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yarn769fink034
Stand-by Joined: 11/28/04
#13re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 7:24pmI'm feeling every fiddler on the roof lately
#14re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 7:32pm
"Darlin, you haven't been hanging out with me, then.
I *DO* break out into song and dance all the time!"
Oh, so do I! I should have said "more people". 
apdarcey
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/10/04
#15re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 8:07pm
as do i kids...
but actually my brother and i often equate ourselves with wicked... despite what you think about the show, it is easy to relate to!
#16re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 8:11pm
Life isn't a musical. Life is a cabaret, ol' chum.
OR
Life is what you do till the moment you die.
OR
Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans. (Does that count as a theater quote now?)
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
musicnmath
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/13/05
#17re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 8:44pmPippin. I've always felt it was a bit of my life on stage. Well...the songs at least. Maybe not the killing-father-who-is-Charlemagne part :)
#18re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 8:50pm
i hate to admit it, but my life thus far has been very much like Dennis in All Shook Up.
"hey! i'm here, too!"
"It's not for sissies, contrary to popular belief." - Tommy Tune, on musical theatre.
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iluvtheatertrash
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/9/04
#19re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 10:59pm
Sad - aren't we?
Oh, well. We love it!
"I know now that theatre saved my life." - Susan Stroman
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#20re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 11:03pm
I really felt as though my life was a musical comedy last week when I came home from Europe. ConvinceMe2 had missed me so much that he had the entire Harmonia Gardens set from HELLO, DOLLY! constructed at the luggage carousels at JFK Airport. I knew that I was home at last when all the guys from BWW were at the foot of the staircase to welcome me back to the States.
(CM2 spares no expense to show his love for me!)
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
#21re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 11:18pm
Yes, I do. I often find myself rallying knights in a valiant attmept to find the Holy Grail, while battling the french and getting lost in dark and expensive forests...
Actually, I think the easiest show to relate to is Taboo. It's all about wanting to be accepted as an individual and not giving a sh!t what everyone thinks of you if you're happy.
I hold a degree in Musical Theatre from Montclair State University. It is useless. Now I'm funny for money. Oh, and I sing.
#22re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 11:20pmI'm always compare my life to the life the characters lead in RENT. Also i see my self as Charlie brown in no other then, Your A Good Man Charlie Brown.
Corine2
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/14/03
#23re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 11:26pm
Yes, and I'm Forbidden to talk about it.
Sucks to be you!
Dollypop
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#24re: Has Anyone Ever Equated Their Life To a Musical?
Posted: 8/16/05 at 11:37pmCorine, are you implying that you are surrounded by puppets in real life? Where are you working THIS week?
"Long live God!" (GODSPELL)
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